I love this character, he is the proof that Imperials can be noble and heroic men. I love his story. You can read his adventures in the comics Empire, the story-arcs "To the Last man" and "the Wrong side of War", and the new story-arc of SW Rebellion "My brother, my enemy".

He doesn't like taking prisoners or enslaving people. All the Imperials are not blood-thirsty murderers. Most of the time, they are young and sometimes quite naive people engaged because they wanted to leave their planet and travel the galaxy... and they're not told everything!

I pretty much dropped the Star Wars fandom once it started turning into a cash cow after the Tim Zahn novels came out. I DO, however, love the idea of depicting more Imperials as decent, hardworking men just doing their jobs. They've got family and relatives.

As a side note, do you remember the scene in Star Wars in which Obi-Wan is crouched around the controls to the tractor beam on the Death Star, trying to hide from two Stormtroopers? If you listen carefully, the troopers are talking about new speeders out on the market! I absolutely LOVED that little touch!

I really like your illustration and the facial expression is wonderful. I don't know anything about the actual character, but it seems to me that his uniform has too many folds and doesn't fit him as neatly as it should. The jodphurs look very nice, but I can see you want to depict him as muscular. If the chest of the jacket fits that tightly it would around his upper arms as well. If he stole the uniform or "borrowed" it, I might just be full of beans!

Yes I loved when the two stormtroopers are speaking about speeders! they look more human like that. When I was younger I thought stormtroopers were droïds...

Yes with this uniform Janek looks muscular, but at the beginning I wanted to draw him under the rain, so wet clothes would have looked like that... but I didn't do the rain (lack of time)... and Brandon Badeaux, the new illustrator of the comics Rebellion, draw Janek very muscular, even with his uniform, just like on my drawing ^^